{"id":44290,"date":"2019-03-08T07:17:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44290"},"modified":"2019-03-08T07:17:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T12:17:53","slug":"the-real-new-deal%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44290","title":{"rendered":"The Real New Deal\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2019\/03\/the-real-new-deal\/\">The Real New Deal<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wassilykandinsky.net\/work-377.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3r8md7174doo44lgpk3kou79-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/KandinskySuccession1935-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Wassily Kandinsky\u00a0<strong>Succession\u00a0<\/strong>1935<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While we\u2019re on the issue of the Green New Deal, here\u2019s an article by Dr. D. with an intro by Dr. D., one he sent me in the mail that contained the actual article, and that I think shouldn\u2019t go to waste. I hope he agrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waste being the key term here, because he arrives at the same conclusion I\u2019ve often remarked upon: that our societies and economies exist to maximize waste production. Make them more efficient and they collapse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ergo: no Green New Deal is any use if you don\u2019t radically change the economic models. Let\u2019s see AOC et al address that, and then we can talk. It\u2019s not as if a shift towards wind and solar will decrease the economic need for waste production (though it may change the waste composition), and thus efficiency is merely a double-edged sword at the very best.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s Dr. D. First intro, then article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3r8md7174doo44lgpk3kou79-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HorLine300px.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Dr. D:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>[..] of course there are a thousand things I can say, but I wanted to make just this one point:\u00a0 that the economy as we know it is prohibited from contracting by its own system structure.\u00a0 One thing I couldn\u2019t expand on is that I believe it is almost entirely unconscious.\u00a0 People like AOC, the Aspen Ecological Center, these people have in the back of their minds \u201cWhat is possible\u201d and \u201chow things are done\u201d and \u201ccan I sell this or will people turn away.\u201d\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>As I say, the idea of saying, \u201cEverything will be perfect, just live like a Zen Monk\u201d is a non-starter.\u00a0 Why, I don\u2019t know, as it\u2019s very pleasant and quite provable.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real New Deal While we\u2019re on the issue of the Green New Deal, here\u2019s an article by Dr. D. with an intro by Dr. D., one he sent me in the mail that contained the actual article, and that I think shouldn\u2019t go to waste. I hope he agrees. Waste being the key term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[24399,6662,246,4118,1108,23450,3798,391,24568,588,1825,13924,4382,5177,924],"class_list":["post-44290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-aoc","tag-contraction","tag-economy","tag-efficiency","tag-energy-use","tag-green-new-deal","tag-grid","tag-growth","tag-ocasio","tag-oil","tag-progress","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-solar","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44291,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44290\/revisions\/44291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}